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Robomatic Precon, a business of Robo Silicon, a green building materials company, has forayed into precast partition walls by setting up a manufacturing facility near Hyderabad.
The company has teamed up with Finland based Elematic to set up a manufacturing facility about 45 km from Hyderabad with an investment of Rs 20 crore.
“This is the first such production facility in South India and only second in India, the other one is located in Ahmedabad. With this innovative solution, the company strengthens its presence in the green construction products segment,” Vijay K Kosaraju, Managing Director of Robomatic Precon, said.
He said Robomatic Precon has set up a fully automated precast partition walls manufacturing facility on a three-acre land at Lemoor village in RR District. The plant has been imported from Elematic of Finland, a leader in Precast technology with presence in over 100 countries. The technical knowhow is from Acotec of Finland.
He said Robomatic Precast walls are thick hollow‐core, non‐load‐bearing wall elements. They are made of normal concrete and are a good alternative to bricks and blocks. The plant has a capacity to produce 2.4 lakhs Sq.Mt., high‐quality elements in a year. The entire manufacturing process is eco-friendly.
Precast walls save on time and energy and facilitate smarter design and aid the builders and architects to expedite the project completion. A wall using this technique can be installed seven times faster than the conventional brick laying work, he said.
Shridhar Rao, Regional Manager, Elematic, said thus far 22 plants have been set up in India for precast products and this is the second such precast wall tech plant in India and the first one in south india. The other plant is based in Ahmedabad.
Kosraju, who forayed into Robo sand about 17 years ago, has set up 14 plants for sand supply, and this includes two units at Delhi and Hyderabad airports of the GMR group, and Reliance Jamnagar facility. Four plants are located near Hyderabad.
The Company will leverage its sales network from existing businesses to reach out to the market. The price works out on par with conventional brick work, he said.
The Rs 200-crore group based out of Hyderabad has three companies, Robo Silicon which is into Robo sand, a sand substitute, Rotek Infra, which handles mining related business and Robotek Buildcon, which markets Rotek plaster and autoclaved bricks.
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